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OONON I. PASSOVER, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

STATION-INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,088, dated December 28, 1897.

Application filed March l2, 1896. Serial No. 582,989. (No model.)

ToaZZ whom it may concern,.-

Bevit known that I, OONON I. PASSOVER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Street and Station Indicators; and I do declare the the streets and stations along the route of the railroad as each is approached by the cars, and, second, to provide a simple and durable street-indicating device for street-railways. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated and described in the accompanying drawings and specification, in which- Figure l represents a sectional elevation of Fig. 2 represents a plan view of the same with the supporting hub and wheel shown in section. Fig. 8 represents a perspective view of a fragment of device. Fig. 4 represents a fragment in perspective of the indicating mechanism. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal section of a fragment of a street-car, showing the application of my improved device to it.

Similar letters and figures of reference refer l to similar parts throughout the several views.

"Referring to Fig. l, B designates a pedestal. It consists of a base with two integral upright sides arranged a space apart and adapted to receive between them the wheel C. The wheel C is mounted on a shaft D,-

which'is j ournaled in suitable boxes E,formed on the top of said pedestal.

posed flanges G, which form, with the hub, a spool-shaped wheel. I divide this wheel into as many equal parts as there are streets or stations on the line of the railroad the device is to be nsed on. I secure to it between its fian ges as many leaves II as there are The wheel C' comprises a hub F and two oppositely-dis-Y equal divisions of the wheel, arranging them to rest on one another at their inner ends, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. I secure each leaf to one or both flanges by a screw'G. These leaves abut against the hub F and extend beyond the periphery of the wheel far enough to allow plenty of room for the operating mechanism to coact with them independently of the said wheel-flanges. Each leaf is provided with upwardly-turned sides I of equal height. In each side I cut a guide-slot J, arranging them opposite one another. These slots extend from a point in each side close to the periphery of the wheel to near the outer end of each leaf. In the center of each leaf and close to the hub F, I secure by solder or other suitable means a clip K, the free end of which is arranged centrally in the space between the leaf to which it is secured and the bottom of the leaf next above it. The free end of the clip is provided with a perforation,

by means of a pin-hinge O, the eyes of the hinge being formed partially in both the indicating-card and said cross-head. The crosshead is provided with two oppositely arranged laterally-projecting lugs M,which extend through the guide-slots J in the sides of the leaves. A

To the base of the pedestal I pivot in a bearing P, which is secured to the base by capscrews Q, a two-armed rock-shaft R, the arms S of which are arranged parallel with one another and extend up from the base, one on each side of the wheel O, and the leaves. Each arm is provided with a spring S', one end of which is secured to the arms and the other is coiled flrst'around a pin SZ and then secured by a screw S3 to the side of the pedestal. Fig. 2 shows only the part of the spring below line 8 of Fig. 1. On the end of each arm a slideway T is formed. These slideways are positioned centrally in line with the horizontal center of the wheel, andthe rock-shaft is pivoted to the base in a position to allow them to swing from this horizontal center outward and downward, the downward throw IOC the slideway, and one end of each projects beyond the slideways toward the leaves of the wheel, and they are held in position to engage the lugs M' of the cross-head by springs V. These springs are constructed of wire and are attached at one end to the arms by being twisted around them and at the other to the dogs by passing into holes V', drilled through them. The side of the dogs which engages the lugs of the cross-head is slightly concaved to enable the lugs to seat themselves centrally in them and to prevent their slipping from them when they are in engagement.

lV designates two lockinglevers. They are secured to opposite sides of the pedestal by screws W', and their locking ends W2 are arranged in close proximity to the sides of the card-indicating leaves. Their outer ends are provided with a notch W3, which is adapted to receive and lock the lugs M of the crossheads in a position to display the indicatingcards. The free ends of the levers \V are adapted to spring downward when engaged by the said lugs, which bear on them and spring them down out of their path as they are moved forward by the leaves and at the same time downward with the leaves by the dogs of the rock-arms.

X designates a pull-rope. It is secured to one of the rock-arms and extends to the rear of the car, as Shown in Fig. 5.

I secure a bell Y (shown only in Fig. l) to the pedestal and connect it to one of the rock arms by a cord or wire Z.

l designates a casing. It is adapted to inclose the leaf-wheel and the pedestal. lt is secured to the base of the pedestal by screws 2. An opening 3 is formed in its edge at the point where the street-indicating cards are displayed. The names of the streets or stations from the beginning to the end of the route on which the device is to be used are painted on the cards, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, or independent cards on which the names are printed are secured to them,

All the leaves, cross-heads, springs, and blank cards are exactly alike. They maybe arranged to form a complete circle of a number corresponding to the number of the streets or stations on the route, or they may be spaced so that a circle will contain twice as many leaves as there are stations, in which case the first half would contain the names of the streets on one way of the route and the remainder the other half in reverse order. In Fig. l but a few leaves of the complete circle are shown, as they are all alike.

The operation is as follows: The device is secured to a bracket et or to the car itself in a position to be seen by the passengers, as shown in Fig. 5. The operating-rope extends through suitable supports 5 to the rear platform 6 to within reach of the conductor. As

the car approaches a street he pulls the rope which moves the upper ends of the rock-arms in an arc of a circle outward and downward. As they move by the pull on the rope the dogs in the slideways engage the lugs of the crosshead and push it outward on its leaf. The curve which the dogs and arms make during their throw is indicated by the dotted line 7 in Fig. l, and as they push the lugs before them they also push the leaf down and thus turn the wheel on its shaft a distance equal to the distance apart of the leaves on the wheel. As the rock-arms and the dogs are pulled forward and downward through the arc they make they carry the lugs down onto the top edge of the locking-levers W, which spring down enough to allow the lugs to pass over their ends, when they spring up into their normal position, as shown in Fig. et. The rockarms and dogs are moved by the pull of the rope until the lugs strike the opposite end of their slots J, which limits their stroke. The rope is then released and the springs S draw the arms violently back to their normal position against the edges of the sides of the pedestal. On their backward throw the dogs contact with the backs of the lugs of the cross-head of the leaf next above the one they have just left, which has been moved into their path by a forward movement of the rock-arm, and the dogs which, like the lugs, are rounded at their back edges to form sliding surfaces between the two, spring back over them, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4, and are returned to their normal position by their springs V. The crosshead and its lugs as soon as the rope is released are drawn back by its spring L, but its lugs are caught by the V-shaped notches in the ends of the lock-levers and are locked and held there, as shown in Fig. 4 and in dotted lines in Fig. l, and the wheel also locked against movement by the retractive power of its spring until another pull on the rope draws the next leaf down and turns the wheel and forces the lugs of this cross-head out of the notches of the lock-levers. Its spring then draws it back into its normal position in the leaf. As the rock-arms move each crosshead outward the indicator-cards are moved over the edge of the leaves and swinging on their hinges hang down vertically and display to the occupants of the car the name of the next street the car will pass. `\Vith each pull of the rope the bell is rung, which calls the attention of the passengers to the cards.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination with the pedestal and a wheel containing a complete circle of independent leaves having side pieces containing slideways, and arranged at equal distances apart, and a series of street and station indicating cards normally seated between said leaves and the card displaying and operating mechanism, comprising a cross-head pivoted IOO IIO

to said cards and having lugs arranged to extend through said slideways in said leaves, a pair of locking-levers, and a double-armed rock-shaft pivoted to said pedestal to swing outward from said wheels axis and downward from abreast its horizontal center, and adapted to automatically engage said cross-head lugs and thereby move said leaves rotatably around said wheels axle into operative relation to said locking-leversintermittently and in successive order, and thereby lock them in a fixed position-to display said cards, and the retracting-spring and the manually-operating pull-rope, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the pedestal and the leaf -wheel, leaves therein, the spring-controlled cross-heads, the indicating-cards arranged to swing vertically from the ends of said cross-heads and leaves the rock-arms having slideways at their ends, the springcontrolled dogs mounted therein and adapted to automatically engage said cross-heads, and means for operating said rock-arms to display said cards in afixed position from the ends of the said leaves, substantially as described.

3. The combination with the pedestal, the leaf-wheel and leaves therein of the crossheads, the retractive spring arranged to return said cross-heads in one direction of their movement, the street-indicating cards piv-l oted to said cross-heads, the slots in said leaves, the lugs on said cross-heads, and means substantially as herein set forth for operating the same to display said cards.

i. The combination of the pedestal and the leaf-wheel, of the leaves detachably secured thereto in a continuous circle at equal distances-apart, a cross-head adapted to move reciprocatively in each leaf, a retractive spring connected to said cross-head and adapted to operate it in one direction, a street-indicating card pivotally secured to said crosshead and arranged to be displayed in a fixed position from the end of each leaf, and means substantially as herein set forth for operating said cross-head to display said cards in successive order, substantially as described.

5. In a railway street or station indicator, the combination with the pedestal and the leaf spool-wheel, of the cross-head in each leaf, the springs connected thereto, the streetindicating cards, the lugs on the cross-heads, the rock-arms having a spring-operated dog slidably journaled in their ends, adapted to engage vsaid lugs and to move said cross-head outward in its leaf and to move said leaf downwardduring its operating stroke, and turn said leaf-wheelv on its axis a distance suflicient to bring the leaves above it in successive order into operative relation to said rockarms and dogs, levers secured to said pedestal and arranged at either side of said leaves in their downward path and in the outward path of the lugs of said cross-heads, and adapted to coact with said rock-arm to receive said lugs from said rock-arms and to hold them in a position to display said street-indicating cards from the ends of said leaves, and means for manually operating said rock-arms, substantially as described.

6. The combination with the leaf-wheel, of the cross-heads arranged to be reciprocated in the leaves, the street-indicating cards pivoted to said cross-heads, and adapted t-o be displayed intermittently in successive order from the ends of said leaves, rock-arms adapted to move said leaves rotatively a predetermined distance and to bring them one at a time into operative position to display said cards, the locking-levers coacting with said rock-arms to display said cards in xed positions for selectable and optional periods of time, and the retracting-springs and pull-rope foroperating said rock-arms, substantially as described.

7. The combination with the pedestal,of the spool-wheel having a continuous circle of leaves radiating therefrom, having vertical sides containing oppositely-arranged slots, a cross-head resting on each leaf, lugs on each cross-head extending through and beyond said slots, a retraeting-spring arranged to return said cross-head on its backward movement, a street-indicating display-card pivotally attached to the opposite end of said cross-head and resting normally between said leaves, a double-armed rock-shaft pivoted to said pedestal and arranged and adapted through the medium of a manually-operating pull-rope to project said ,cross-headsand display-cards outward on said leaves one at a time in successive order and thereby display said street-indicating cards, and adapted to move the cross-head and leaf with which it is in engagement downward during its outward stroke, a distance sufficient to bring the next leaf above it in operative relation to said rock-arms, and levers arranged to coact with said rock-arms to receive said cross-head from said rock-arms and lock it in a fixed position to allow said street-indicating card to hang vertically down over the edge of its respective leaf, substantially as set forth and described.

8. In a railway street and station indicator, the combination of a pedestal having a spoolwheel rotatably j ournaled therein, a continuous circle of independent leaves secured to said spool-wheel and radiating from its hub, vertical sides to each leaf, a slideway-slot in each side of each leaf, a cross-head having lugs adapted to said slideways and extending through and beyond the side slots, a retractive spring secured to one end of said crosshead and adapted to control its movement in one direction, a street-indicating display-card pivotally secured to the opposite end of each cross-head of each leaf, a rock-shaft pivoted to the base of said pedestal having arms extending upward on either side of said leaves and adapted to swing in an outward and downward curve from abreast the horizontal center of said,'wheel and to operatively engage the said lugs of said cross-head and move it to exhibit said display-card, a slide- IOO IIO

way on the end or each arm, a spring-controlled dog in said slideways arranged to engage the lugs of said erosshead, a 1nanually operated pull-rope secured to said rook-arms, a spring secured to said levers and said pedestal adapted t0 return said arms to their normal position when said pull-rope is released, and a pair of locking-levers arranged in the path of the lugs of said cross-head to lock said cross-head in a position to display said 1o street-indicating Card, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CONON I. PASSOVER. Witnesses:

N. L. WATSON, M. E. PETERS. 

